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i4 REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONERS In this respect the rates levied for the support of the Lights on the Scotch coast are placed on a footing entirely different from those on the English and Irish coasts ; and when

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'THE LITERARY EXAMINER. Tie Industrial History of Free Nations, con- sidered in relation to their Domestic Institutions andl External Policy. By W. Torrens M'Cullagh. Two vols. Chapman and Hall. There could not be found a more interesting subject than

TOWN AND COUNTRY TALK. The Edwin Fox convict-ship has sailed for Western Australia, having on board the Rev. W. Beresford, whose trial for forgery, and consequent transportation for life, occupied so large a share of public attention at the

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Elizabeth September 1588, 1-10 September 1588, 1-10 1 Sept. 414. Copy of Letter from Pedro De Alava in Rouen. I have not written news of the Armada, as the rumours have been so various and I like to send

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GARDEN, Alexander (1714-85), of Troup, Banff. Constituency Dates Aberdeenshire 1768 21 Dec. 1785 Biography Garden inherited an ample fortune and great estates in Banff and Aberdeen. A staunch Hanoverian in the ’45, he acted as liaison between the King’s

actual e xport trade has never been more than £240,000,000 in our mo"st prosperous year, and last year it was only £220,000,000. At least 12,000,000 acres that are now used for sport, or lying in waste, could be brought

actual e xport trade has never been more than £240,000,000 in our most prosperous year, and last year it was only £220,000,000. At least 12,000,000 acres that are now used for sport, or lying in waste, could be brought